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Shabbat Shalom November 2, 2012

Megastorm Sandy rained down on our Eastern Seaboard this week with monster devastation throughout much of the Northeastern part of our county. An estimated 10 million people lost power including our daughter and son-in-law in New Jersey who (rather than sit in a cold dark apartment) decided to road-trip it to Detroit for a bonus visit with family. I hope you and your loved ones are safe from Mother Nature’s wrath and if you were affected, your life is (or will be) back to normal sooner rather than later.

Also raining down this week (and almost every week) were 80 rockets fired from Gaza onto the Southern Israeli city of Sderot. Of course you might not know about this constant bombardment since this regular occurrence rarely hits our news outlets. It did make the Canadian News since the Alberta Deputy Premier (who was visiting Israel) almost witnessed a rocket attack first-hand till they wisely altered his itinerary.

Bravo to Dan Gilbert on his Quickly executed Pro-Detroit video highlighting our High Tech Corridor. Though we lost to San Francisco in the Worlds Series, we are gaining ground on them with our High Tech industry. I commend all Detroit booster and Dan has been a wonderful leader in this respect. Here is that great video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOR3X0IU8_U

Also, Bravo (this week) to our US Supreme Court who declined to hear an appeal from an Oklahoma (lunatic) attempt to define fertilized eggs as persons with legal rights deeming some forms of Birth Control as murder. This may be an extreme view but there are plenty of people who are adement on reversing Roe V. Wade and eliminating access to birth control.

$2 Billion…that is what has been raised (at record levels) for this presidential campaign. No offense to the ad agencies and media outlets who profit from this expenditure, but can you imagine what that kind of money could do for so many worthy causes. This county is truly desperate for some Campaign Finance Reform. Also, I can’t wait till my inbox is vacant of the 50 a day policial messages we all have been receiving for the last 2 years.

I have tried very hard to be respectful of my friends on this email list as I know some think and vote differently than I do. In a perfect world, we would be abe to receive ONLY factual information and base our decisions on truth, but in this world, spin doctors and falsehoods permeate our senses so sifting (reference from our Mosaic Mission) through the rhetoric sometimes requires a PHd. So, for the last time (till the next election), my Soap Box will be filled with my 2 cents of those (people and issues) I am supporting.

Also, please join us in tribute of the Weisbergs as they are honored at the Holocaust Center event on Nov. 11th. For more info: www.holocaustcenter.org

Anyone going to the GA in Baltimore (General Assembly of our Jewish Federations) next week? If so, let me know so we can catch up. I’ll be there Nov. 11th & 12th with our daughter, Ariella (Federation staff of Monmouth County in NJ).

Lastly, I started these emails exactly 3 years ago this week (and have not missed a Friday). Below was my first email with the original recipient list which has now grown to 579 people.